The morbidity associated with a leech bite is mainly due to 2 factors -- mechanical obstruction of a vital organ and/or severe bleeding, as in our cases. Vaginal bleeding due to a leech bite is rare.

Vaginal bleeding as the result of a leech bite is very rare. There are only 3 case reports available in the Medline-indexed literature. [1,2,3] Vaginal bleeding in young girls as the result of a ...

The discrediting of general "bleeding" as a treatment for everything ... off as the more effective medicinal leech. H decora, which was imported, does not bite as deep and so was less effective ...